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Honorary Committee
Board of Advisors
New York Advocacy Board Deidre Bounds serves as Chair of the Sphinx Board. Elected Managing Partner at Brogan & Partners Convergence Marketing in early 2009, Deidre is responsible for executing the annual business objectives set by the agency's Board of Directors. She ensures the day to day quality of our products, our client servicing, our staff morale and works hand in hand with CFO/COO Maria Marcotte. And she leads the equity partner team that is our next generation of management and our top talent. Starting as Marcie Brogan's administrator in 1992, Deidre showed a great big appetite for learning our business. After conquering client service, she led our media team, then the PR practice and next the interactive team. Most recently she has created a website addressing the top five health concerns of African-American women. Deidre's leadership and innovative spirit earned her a Partner designation in 1998. And her character - principled, responsive, stable, and fearless - put her on the Managing Partner track. Knowing that work is not everything Deidre and her husband Bill successfully and actively parent their two children. Daughter Katie is seldom without her mom's cheers at soccer and basketball games and track meets. Deidre has always made time for our community too: She managed our externship program with a Detroit Public School; she volunteers at a women's shelter; she co-led the Detroit Image Team under Mayor Archer; served on the executive board for ArtServe Michigan; she is active in local, state and national political campaigns; she currently serves on boards for the Sphinx Organization and the Detroit Regional Chamber. In her severely limited free time, she dreams about traveling and working out. Deidre lives in Southfield with her husband Bill and children Jacobe and Katie. Howard Hertz serves as the Vice Chair of the Sphinx Board. He formed the law firm of Hertz Schram with Bradley Schram in 1979. He specializes in entertainment law and is the lead attorney of Hertz Schram's Entertainment Practice Group. Among the many organizations and honors to Mr. Hertz's credit, he is a member of the Board of Directors and President of the Detroit Music Awards Foundation, a member of the Board of Governors of the Recording Academy Chicago Chapter (Grammys) a member of the International Association of Entertainment Lawyers, and a member of the Wayne State University College of Fine, Performing & Communication Arts Board of Visitors. In 2008 Mr. Hertz became an adjunct professor at the University of Michigan Law School, teaching a course in entertainment law. Mr. Hertz graduated from Wayne State University in 1972 with distinction and received his law degree from Wayne State University in 1976, where he graduated cum laude. Anthony Glover serves as Treasurer of the Sphinx Board. Mr. Glover is Senior Vice President, Retail Financial Services - Consumer Banking, JPMorgan Chase. As Midwest Regional Manager, Tony Glover is responsible for over 400 Chase branches in Indiana and Michigan. With more than 20 years' experience in financial services, Glover has been with Chase and its predecessor, Bank One, for more than eight years. Before becoming Midwest Regional Manager, Mr. Glover served as a Market Manager in the Chicago West and Central Illinois markets, and a District Manager in Chicago. Mr. Glover held positions of increasing responsibility at American Express from 1984 to 1998, culminating in his appointment as Vice President and Controller of the Southern Region. Mr. Glover has a B.S. Degree in Accounting from Florida A & M University. Carl Herstein serves as Secretary of the Sphinx Board. Mr. Herstein is a partner in the law firm of Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP in its Detroit office. Carl graduated from the University of Michigan with high distinction and highest honors in Political Science, and is also a graduate of Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and a teaching assistant. Carl specializes in real estate and related areas of law, as well as usury law and horse racing law, and helps manage his firm's operations in the areas of billing and collection and technology. He also writes frequently on real property, usury and other issues for the academic and legal press. He has served on the Financial Institutions Advisory Board for the University of Detroit Mercy Law School, and is currently on the Technology Advisory Committee of the Institute for Continuing Legal Education, and is a Fellow of the Michigan State Bar Foundation. Roland Carter is founder and CEO of MAR-VEL, a publisher specializing in music and traditions of African American composers, and a life member of the National Association of Negro Musicians Inc.(NANM). Distinguished composer, conductor, educator, and pianist, Roland Carter is the Ruth S. Holmberg Professor of American Music in the Department of Music at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC). His accomplishments as a leading figure in the choral arts include concerts with major choruses and orchestras in prestigious venues nationwide; as well as lectures, workshops, and master classes. From presidential inaugurations to the smallest church, from scholarly presentations for national gatherings of musicians, educators, and preservationists to private coaching with individual singers, Mr. Carter lends his keen ear, bright mind, and talented hands to projects of every sort. In recognition of his stature, he has served on National Endowments for the Arts' Heritage, Access and Choral Panels and received an honorary Doctor of Music degree from Shaw University. He was one of the 2003 Tennessee Governor's Arts Awards in the Distinguished Artist category. In 2004, Carter was elected to honorary membership of the internationally acclaimed Morehouse Glee Club, joining the ranks of only two other musicians so honored during the history of the award, Robert Shaw and Leonard DePaur. Martha Darling is an education policy consultant based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Prior to moving to Ann Arbor in 1998, Ms. Darling was a Senior Program Manager at The Boeing Company in Seattle, from which she retired in 1999. She joined Boeing in 1987, with assignments in 747 Program Management, Commercial Airplane Government Affairs and Boeing's Corporate Offices, where she supported the CEO and other executives in their leadership roles in public education reform at the state level and in Seattle. A northwest native, Ms. Darling is a graduate of Reed College and of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. Aaron Dworkin is Founder and President of the Sphinx Organization. An accomplished electric and acoustic violinist, he received his Bachelors of Music and Masters of Music in Violin Performance from the University of Michigan School of Music, graduating with high honors. A member of the Golden Key, Phi Kappa Phi and Pi Kappa Lamda National Honor Societies, Mr. Dworkin is a recipient of the MLK Spirit Award. He previously attended the Peabody Institute, the Philadelphia New School and the Interlochen Arts Academy and has studied with Vladimir Graffman, Berl Senofsky, Jascha Brodsky, John Eaken, Renata Knific, Donald Hopkins and Stephen Shipps. Additionally, Mr. Dworkin studied piano with Robert Alexander Bohnke in Tubingen, Germany. More info ---> Sally Stegeman DiCarlo is an owner and an executive committee member of a real estate investment and property development firm, with primary responsibility for the marketing and leasing of a student housing portfolio of properties. Earlier in her career, she was a non-profit development professional for the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, and WBEZ National Public Radio in Chicago, among others. Ms. DiCarlo has degrees in History and German from Smith College and Harvard University, and she has served on numerous non-profit boards. She and her husband reside in Ann Arbor and in San Francisco. Kenneth C. Fischer is President of the University Musical Society (UMS) at the University of Michigan, a position he has held since June 1, 1987. In addition to his position at UMS, Mr. Fischer has contributed to the performing arts presenting field as a speaker, workshop leader, writer, consultant, and conference chair as well as a site visitor and panelist for many public and private grant programs. He currently serves on the boards of the Interlochen Center for the Arts, National Arts Strategies, Strategic National Arts Alumni Project, Cultural Alliance of Southeastern Michigan, Music in ME, Arts Midwest, and Ann Arbor SPARK. Maxine Frankel is Founder of the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation and an internationally recognized art collector and philanthropist. She is a graduate of University of Michigan and is married to real estate developer Stuart Frankel. Maxine and Stuart Frankel's renowned private collection consists of important works by seminal modern and contemporary artists, and their collection of contemporary ceramic works is among the most important in the world. Maxine Frankel currently serves on the boards of several nonprofit and charitable organizations, including Independent Curators International, the national advisory boards for Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, N.Y., the Noguchi Museum and the Socrates Sculpture Park Board, both in Long Island City, N.Y., the University of Michigan Museum of Art, and the U-M President's Advisory Group. Maxine also chairs the board of governors for the Cranbrook Academy of Art and the Cranbrook Art Museum, and is a member of University Musical Society's National Advisory Council. Jenice Mitchell Ford is an Associate in the Detroit office of Foley & Lardner and is a member of the firm's Litigation Department serving in the General Commercial Litigation, Business Reorganization and Labor & Employment Practice Groups. Ms. Mitchell formerly worked as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Anna Diggs Taylor in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. Patricia Garcia is president, publisher, and co-owner of the Ann Arbor Observer Company, which publishes the Ann Arbor Observer, City Guide, Community Observer, Community Guide, Guest Guide, and arborweb.com. Ms. Garcia currently serves on the board of United Bank & Trust - Washtenaw and is a trustee and immediate past chair of the Ann Arbor Summer Festival. She has served as president of the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor, as chair of the Washtenaw Economic Club, and as a board member for many other organizations, including United Bancorp, Inc., University Musical Society, Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation, Nonprofit Enterprise at Work, Inc., and United Way of Washtenaw County. A resident of the Ann Arbor community since 1974, Ms. Garcia has received distinguished service awards from the Rotary Club and the Ann Arbor Jaycees. Sandra Gibson's professional experience began with her tenure as program representative for UCLA Extension's Department of the Arts, where she oversaw 180-200 performing and integrated arts seminars and events annually and coordinated professional certificate programs in recording arts and sciences, film scoring and recording engineering. Gibson later joined the senior management team as head of West Coast operations at American Film Institute, where she also served as director for the Independent Filmmaker Program, an NEA re-granting program that established her as a leader and major fundraiser in the field. Gibson's work as the executive director of the Public Corporation for the Arts, the Long Beach Arts Council in California, developed her gifts for working with diverse cultural communities, individual artists, philanthropy, civic leadership and patrons of arts and culture. Eventually, she was appointed chair of board of directors for the California Assembly of Local Arts Agencies, a statewide consortium of local arts councils, and an officer of the National Association of Local Arts Agencies, where she again distinguished herself as a national arts advocate and visionary cultural leader. Most recently Gibson has the led the development of an eco-leadership forum that advances the goals and action agenda of Culture|Futures, an international collaboration of organizations and individuals in the nonprofit, for-profit, philanthropic, economic development , political and policy arenas who are concerned with shaping and delivering proactive support for the transition towards an Ecological Age by 2050. In July 2011 Gibson began work as an independent consultant and serves as a Consulting Advisor to the DeVos Institute for Arts Leadership at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts as well as a board member of the National Center for Creative Aging, on the National Advisory Board of Folkways Records and on the founding board of the Resource Center for Cultural Exchange. Dr. Linda Gillum currently serves as the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty Development and Diversity at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine in Rochester Hills, Michigan. As the Associate Dean, she is the liaison for the School of Medicine who is responsible for facilitation, coordination and management of academic policy matters, faculty appointments, promotion and tenure policies and communications pertaining to both the basic science and clinical faculty. She provides senior leadership and consultation in the areas of diversity planning, reporting and programming, institutional research and strategic planning. She also works to enhance inter-institutional program coordination and planning to achieve the LCME accreditation process for the School of Medicine. Over a span of thirty years Dr. Linda Gillum has held faculty and administrative appointments at Michigan State University, Wayne State University and University of Michigan Medical School. As Assistant Dean in U-M's Medical School Dr. Gillum directed the faculty affairs and student affairs offices and provided support to the school's academic and governing bodies. She also developed outreach programs to recruit underrepresented high school students into science, engineering and medical careers. Dr. Gillum also served as Assistant Provost for Academic Affairs at University of Michigan. Dr. Gillum's board appointments include the Boys and Girls Club, Cranbrook Board of Trustees, Michigan Hospice Foundation, The Detroit Zoological Society, The Children's Center, and Mosaic Youth Theater. Norman Herbert is a financial consultant, most recently working with the Michigan Information Technology Center Foundation in Ann Arbor. He was previously engaged as a consultant with the Ann Arbor Public Schools, Board of Education. He serves on the United Bancorp, Inc (holding company) board, United Bank & Trust (bank) board the local market board for United Bank & Trust - Washtenaw, and has been a member of the Trust Committee of the United Bank & Trust since June 2006. He has also served on the boards of University Musical Society, Commonfund, and Ann Arbor Area Community Foundation. For thirty-five years he was a part of the financial management team for the University of Michigan, retiring in 2002 as Associate Vice President & Treasurer, a position he had held since 1995. Mr. Herbert is a 1964 graduate of Earlham College and currently a member of the Earlham Foundation Board. Andrea Hoffman is the Founder and CEO of Diversity Affluence. Andrea has provided leadership-minded clients with forward thinking ideas, strategies and tactics for over 25 years. She is a marketing strategist and trend forecaster who is the visionary behind ground-breaking diversity initiatives. Andrea's expertise is a combination of agency and entrepreneurial experience. She began her career in event marketing, creating and producing celebrity-driven events, and for the last 13 years has specialized in business development, diversity initiatives, and designing new media marketing communications strategies. Andrea's career highlights include functioning as the key architect of the Mercedes-Benz USA (MBUSA) entertainment strategy that included several diversity tactics. She also helped to evaluate MBUSA's multi-million dollar Presence Marketing budget during a time when Mercedes was shifting its brand towards a younger demographic. Additionally, Andrea was part of the research team that helped a prominent NYC law firm win a landmark diversity case. Andrea is the co-author of Black is the New Green-Marketing to Affluent African Americans (Palgrave Macmillan), serves on the Advisory Board of Madonna's Foundation - Success for Kids, is also a Board Member of Evidence, A Dance Company, and a Member of The Luxury Marketing Council. Marianne C. Lockwood is Co-founder and President Emeritus of the Orchestra of St. Luke's and DiMenna Center for Classical Music. She has been associated with the Orchestra of St. Luke's since it's inception in 1974. Since that time she has overseen its growth from a modest chamber ensemble into the foremost chamber orchestra in the country. As the culminating act of her tenure at St. Luke's, she created the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, the first state of the art nonprofit rehearsal and recording center in New York City. An active advocate for the arts Marianne Lockwood remains a trustee of St. Luke's as well as The Sphinx Organization. She has also served on the NEA, DCA, and the Massachusetts Arts Council music panels. She was recently appointed the arts advisor to the Enoch Foundation. Cassandra Seidenfeld Lyster is a student at Columbia University, an actress, and an athlete. Ms. Seidenfeld Lyster had an international modeling career and helped build a novelty company from startup to 'the major leagues.' She has studied method acting with some of the great teachers in New York City and has had appearances in many movies. She is a competitive equestrian in the hunter jumper divisions and has been a sponsor of the Hampton Classic Horse Show for 18 years. Ms. Seidenfeld Lyster has helped to organize numerous charitable events in the New York area. Diana Bianchi Moison had a 12 year Marketing career in global Consumer Packaged Goods and Luxury brands as Category Marketing Director at Colgate Palmolive in Europe, followed by Global Chief Marketing Officer for Christofle in Paris. Following a 10-year family sabbatical, Ms. Bianchi Moison returned to work with a consulting assignment with a health care network of The Blackstone Group in Geneva, and several Fund-Raising and Institutional Development leadership roles in Paris, Geneva and NY. In 2010, she was Co-Chair for the 30th Annual Gala Benefit of the French American School of NY fund raiser. Ms. Bianchi Moison is fluent in English, Italian and French, and received her Bachelors in Business Administration from John Cabot University Rome, Italy. Dr. Majorie Pearsall is Medical Director, Vascular/Interventional Radiology, at American Access Care-Baltimore. Dr. Pearsall graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1981 with a degree in chemistry. In 1985, she earned her medical degree from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. Dr. Pearsall completed a residency in preliminary general surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, with a third year of study at SUNY-Buffalo. She completed a radiology residency at the University of Tennessee in June, 2001. She sought further study and completed a neurosurgical fellowship at Penn State University in Hershey, PA, and an interventional radiology fellowship at Temple University Hospital. Dr. Pearsall is licensed to practice medicine in North Carolina, New York, Tennessee, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. Prior to becoming medical director of American Access Care of Baltimore, she practiced as an interventional radiologist at Flushing Hospital Medical Center in Queens and Staten Island University Hospital in Staten Island, New York. Dr. Pearsall is a member of the Old State Medical Society, Charlotte Medical Society, Radiological Society of North America, and the Society of Interventional Radiology. In her spare time Dr. Pearsall is an avid sailor and enjoys skiing, tennis, horseback riding, cycling, and travel. Vivian R. Pickard was named President of the General Motors Foundation and Director of Corporate Relations for General Motors Company in December 2010. She is responsible for leading the company's efforts to strengthen communities across the United States through partnerships and investments in the areas of education, health and human services, environment and energy and community development. Over the past decade, the foundation has donated more than $350 million to send students to college, keep teen drivers safe, educate parents on child passenger safety, promote diversity and support vital non-profit organizations. A community advocate and philanthropist, Ms. Pickard currently serves on the board for the Washington, D.C. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, Inforum, Friends of African and African American Art (Detroit Institute of Arts), Detroit Regional Chamber Foundation, The Parade Company, New Detroit The Coalition, Fifth Third Bank - Eastern Michigan, Michigan Women's Foundation, Council of Michigan Foundations, and the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute. In addition, she is the Immediate Past-President for The Black Women's Agenda, Inc. and serves as a member of The Executive Leadership Council and on the Executive Committee for The Links, Inc. Ms. Pickard has been widely recognized for her dedication to serving others recently receiving the 2011 Bridge Builder Award from the Rainbow PUSH Coalition, the 2011 Alpha Award of Honor from the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and the 2009 Women of Excellence Award from the Michigan Chronicle. She was also a 2010 Inforum Inner Circle Honoree. A 33-year veteran of General Motors, Ms. Pickard has also held several other key roles at the company, including administrative and management positions within the Finance, Human Resources and Public Policy functions. Born and raised in Sturgis, Mississippi, and then moving to Flint, Michigan, Ms. Pickard earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Ferris State University and a Master of Science from Central Michigan University. She is a lifetime member of the NAACP, the National Council of Negro Women, the National Black MBA Association and Leadership Detroit. Rachel Barton Pine is a concert violinist with an active performing career since age seven. Ms. Barton has appeared as soloist with many of the world's most prestigious ensembles, including the Chicago, Atlanta, St. Louis, Dallas, Baltimore, Montreal, Vienna, New Zealand, Iceland and Budapest Symphonies, as well as the Buffalo Philharmonic, Louisville Orchestra and Belgian National Orchestra. She has worked closely with such renowned conductors as Zubin Mehta, Erich Leinsdorf, Neeme Jarvi, Semyon Bychkov and Placido Domingo. Acclaimed collaborations include appearances with the Pacifica String Quartet, as well as additional pairings with Daniel Barenboim, Christoph Eschenbach, Jonathan Gilad and Mark O' Connor. As a recitalist, she has performed the complete Paganini Caprices and the Bach Sonatas and Partitas for live broadcast on WFMT Radio in Chicago. Performances have also been broadcast on National Public Radio's Performance Today. David Ericson Rudolph is a consultant and president and CEO of D. Ericson & Associates Public Relations. Before founding D. Ericson & Associates, David worked in the corporate communications and community relations department for the Palace Sports & Entertainment and the Piston-Palace Foundation. While at the Detroit Pistons David initiated groundbreaking programs such as the PARK Program - Partnership to Adopt and Renovate Parks for Kids an $8 million project to renovate selected public parks in the city of Detroit. David Rudolph has a Master of Science degree in International Affairs from Florida State University and Bachelors of Science degree in Criminal Justice from Michigan State University. In addition, he is a graduate of Indiana University's Leadership Works Fundraising Program and Wayne State University's Essentials in Fundraising program. In 1996 David was one of three awarded a National Society of Fundraising Executives Minority Fellowships. Anne L. Taylor, M.D. is currently Vice Dean for Academic Affairs at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. She received her medical degree from the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine and completed her internship, residency, and a two year clinical cardiology fellowship at the University of Chicago Medical Center. Her research training was conducted at Johns Hopkins Hospital and the University of Iowa. She was Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine/Cardiology at the University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, where she also served as Director of Echocardiography at Parkland Memorial Hospital. From 1990 to 1997, Dr. Taylor was an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine/Cardiology at Case Western Reserve University and Chief of Cardiology at the Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center. In 1997, she was appointed Vice Chair for Women's Health Programs in the Department of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. From 2000 to 2007, Dr. Taylor was Professor of Medicine/Cardiology and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs at the University of Minnesota Medical School. She joined the faculty at Columbia University in November, 2007. Kathy Weaver has sat on the board of many organizations for over 20 years, including the board of trustees for Walnut Hill School, and the boards of the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas County Historical Society, Dallas Symphony Society, Dallas Art Society, Dallas Youth Leadership, and Easter Seals. Her many civic and volunteer activities include working with New Canaan Cares, Wavery Care Center, Austin Lyric Opera, Dallas Lyric Opera, Dallas Symphony and the Philadelphia Heart Association. Ms. Weaver has worked for TICOR Relocation in London and Sheridan Real Estate in New York. She attended Southern Methodist University and Chatham College. Beverly Willis, after graduating from the University of Michigan's Art School, worked for several regional agencies, designing publications and overseeing a variety of marketing and public relations responsibilities. In 1981, she co-founded BBA Graphic Design, a full-service marketing company which presently offers services to various businesses and organizations, including the University of Michigan and the Jim Bradley Automotive Group. Damian Woetzel is director of the Aspen Institute Arts Program and Harman-Eisner Artist-in-Residence Program. In addition to his role at the Institute, Woetzel is producer and director of dance and music performances, including the artistic directorship of the Vail International Dance Festival, where he presents dance performances and commissions. He also works with Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Project in the New York City Public Schools, and he is the founding director of the Jerome Robbins Foundation's New Essential Works (NEW) Program, which gives grants to enable the production of new works. Among his other recent projects was the direction of the first performance of the White House Dance Series hosted by First Lady Michelle Obama, and an arts salute to Stephen Hawking at Lincoln Center for the World Science Festival. Woetzel was a principal dancer at New York City Ballet from 1989 until his retirement from the stage in 2008. He has choreographed a number of ballets for New York City Ballet, among other companies. Woetzel serves on the artists committee of the Kennedy Center Honors, the Knight Foundation's National Arts Advisory Committee, and was a member of the recent Harvard Task Force on the Arts. He served as the 2008 Harman-Eisner Artist-in-Residence of the Aspen Institute, and is a frequent speaker on the arts and arts policy. Woetzel holds an MPA degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. In the fall of 2010 he was a visiting lecturer at Harvard Law School where he co-taught a course on performing arts and the law. In November 2009, President Obama appointed Woetzel to the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
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